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Australian Bass
Percalates novemaculeata
Australian Bass (Percalates novemaculeata) is a native eastern Australian perch found mainly in cool forest streams, rivers, and impoundments, with some populations moving downstream to estuaries to spawn. It is a popular sportfish, especially on lures, and is closely managed because many rivers support stocked and regulated populations.
Barramundi
Lates calcarifer
Barramundi est un puissant prédateur tropical que l'on rencontre souvent dans les eaux adaptées et les zones structurées de cette espèce. Cette fiche résume l'identification, l'habitat et les conseils de pêche.
Giant Trevally
Caranx ignobilis
Giant Trevally (Caranx ignobilis) is a powerful Indo-Pacific reef and island predator that can grow very large and take both fish and crustaceans. Adults often patrol drop-offs, surf zones, and lagoon edges, while juveniles use shallow bays and mangroves.
Golden Perch
Macquaria ambigua
Golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) is a widespread Australian freshwater native prized by anglers and common in inland rivers and impoundments. It moves with flows, forms schools, and feeds heavily on aquatic insects, shrimp, yabbies, and small fish.
Murray Cod
Maccullochella peelii
Murray cod is Australia's largest strictly freshwater predatory fish, endemic to the Murray-Darling Basin. It lives in big rivers, billabongs, and deep snaggy holes, and is a prized angling species that is highly regulated and vulnerable to overfishing.
Truite arc-en-ciel
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Truite arc-en-ciel est une espèce de poisson courante que l'on rencontre souvent dans les eaux adaptées et les zones structurées de cette espèce. Cette fiche résume l'identification, l'habitat et les conseils de pêche.
Vivaneau rouge
Lutjanus campechanus
Vivaneau rouge est une espèce de poisson courante que l'on rencontre souvent dans les eaux adaptées et les zones structurées de cette espèce. Cette fiche résume l'identification, l'habitat et les conseils de pêche.
Aba
Gymnarchus niloticus
Gymnarchus niloticus – l'aba, aba aba ou poisson électrique – est un poisson électrique vivant au fond des rivières et lacs. Seul représentant du genre Gymnarchus et de la famille Gymnarchidae dans l'ordre des Ostéoglossiformes. Corps allongé sans nageoires pelviennes ni anale, queue ratiforme. Nage avec sa nageoire dorsale allongée.
Murène d'Abbott
Gymnothorax eurostus
La murène d'Abbott est une murène associée aux récifs connue dans les eaux tropicales indo-pacifiques, mais son histoire naturelle au niveau de l'espèce est moins documentée que celle des poissons récifaux plus communs. Elle se cache dans les anfractuosités le jour et émerge la nuit pour chasser poissons et crustacés.
Abdurahmanov's pugolovka
Benthophilus abdurahmanovi
Abdurahmanov's pugolovka is a brackishwater fish of family Gobiidae. It is found in the northern Caspian Sea and the lower reaches of the rivers Volga and Terek. FishBase treats this taxa as a subspecies of the Azov tadpole goby, and is reported as Benthophilus magistri abdurahmanovi.
Abe's Angelfish
Centropyge abei
Centropyge abei is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a small marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean.
Abrau Sprat
Clupeonella abrau
The Abrau sprat is a species of freshwater fish in the family Clupeidae. It is found landlocked in Russia in a single locality, Lake Abrau, located at 70 m above sea level near the Black Sea coast close to Novorossiysk. The lake is small and has been stocked by several alien species, whence the Abrau sprat is considered critically endangered. As a result of the 2019 expedition, several individu...